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on that. he will bring us the breaking news as it continues. meantime, breaking today, it is now in the supreme court s hands to decide whether or not former president trump is eligible to run for president. the nine justices hearing arguments today around this question. is colorado correct in barring trump from its 2024 ballot for engaging in insurrection , which is something the former president has never been criminally charged with. all of the states that you see on the screen also weighing challenges to trump s eligibility.so the decision really has massive implications for millions of voters across the country. here s reaction from the former president. watch. i listened today. i thought our arguments were very strong. an argument is you re leading in every race and every state. and biden, you re leading in the country, by a lot. and can you take the person that is leading everywhere and say hey, we re not going to let you run. you know, i think that s tough to ....
Then let them do their job. you just said there are ten state and local investigations. there subpoeo much ridiculous overlapping between state, local, and federal investigations that the democrats are just wasting their time. do your job, worry about health care, worry about immigration, worry about the things that matter to your constituents. and there are 457 democratic nominees for president, why do we whit that number down to focus on the primary. what about the argument that we heard earlier today that if you don t impeach impeachment becomes a dead letter. if they can t be impeached. if he can go this far in distorting the president, then just take it out of the constitution. it has never worked for a ....
Impeachment. that is a solid argument. part of that argument is that even if republicans in the senate were to acquit, which we have to presume based on their abject loyalty that they would, right? that why wouldn t that become a political item that they could wield over republicans. one particular guy that loves trump now, didn t like him before, but lindsey graham, mitch mcconnell, they re both up for reelection. here is how they sounded on clinton impeachment, why couldn t they just role this tape and say you re a hypocrite and use that against them. the president endpaged in a per ssistent practice and patte of obstruction of justice. and ascertaining the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the ....
Process. that is most important for the public to understand the facts. that is important to know and i want to get the whole panel in on this. the term both sides is my bug a boo. when i hear that phrase i melt a little bit. i will say that both sides of this argument, and you ll never hear me say that again, they have genuine belief in what they believe, right? i think both sides are trying to argue this in good faith. one of the big argues that speaker pelosi and the other leadership team are making is that certain exoneration in the senate, which we have to presume, i don t know why they believe they will overtime change their minds. they will stick to trump to the end, right? politically, would that then help them go out on the campaign trail and say no obstruction, ....
All right, that does it for me. we will see you tomorrow on as a.m. joy. now i will toss it over to alex witt. you have a great show teed up. you have seth molten. i do. this will be so interesting to see where he stands. remember he such a big platform trying to oppose in anancy pelo. and we will see where he stands. and two seconds we have to talk about game of thrones. we re like sensei and arya. we are. have a good day. good day to all of you in new york. 9:00 a.m. out west, almost noon eastern. far away in japan, the president fighting over the 25th argument with nancy pelosi. ....